I was under the impression that the new Firefox for Android has not implemented all plugin APIs yet, and thus can't run most of the plugins. Of course there will be plugins that do work and are not whitelisted right now, and they need to get on that, but it's not just whitelisting for the sake of whitelisting
1. Create a collection of addons you'd like to use on AMO (e.g. via desktop mode)
2. Use Firefox Nightly
3. Click several times on the firefox icon in settings > about until developer mode is enabled
4. Click "change addon collection" and enter your AMO userid as well as the name of the collection you created in step 1
5. Firefox is restarted, and you can install all addons from your collection (if this doesn't work, clear the cache via the android app settings for firefox)
6. Have fun :)
I hope you see why I still don't consider Mozilla behavior acceptable here.
Many addons work already, but they're locked behind mozilla's vetting. Not only you need to jump through additional hoops, but you actually require an account on Mozilla's website as well.
This is like saying that Chrome is fine too, just use Chromium, get the addon from a github release and there you go!
Definitely. But I can understand why not everything is added yet: Addon configuration pages are mostly broken, downloads are broken, and some other APIs.
Once those are implemented, which is expected soon (only in october did they implement the majority of the APIs so far) all addons should work, and it'll be open again.
The big issue with just opening it now is that it'd lead to dozens of complaints due to broken addons, so I can easily understand limiting it to people with enough understanding to go through these steps.
Besides, the chromium workaround used to be the official installation instructions for AdNauseam for Chrome, until Google markef it as malware. And Chromium doesn't even support addons at all on mobile devices
